by Julie Orringer · Alfred a Knopf Inc · tapa dura · ISBN 9781400041114
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«How to Breathe Underwater» is Julie Orringer's collection of short stories, published by Alfred A. Knopf in hardcover (240 pages, in English).
Nine stories about young people facing loss and the transition to a hostile adult world. A teenage girl learns to dive to piece her family back together after an accident; another struggles with her cousin's overwhelming beauty, and a group of popular girls ostracizes a classmate. Pain and resilience run through these stories.
Julie Orringer's narrative debut. The book was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.
For readers of literary fiction and contemporary short stories, especially those seeking stories about adolescence and resilience.
Julie Orringer is an American novelist, short story writer, and professor. She attended Cornell University and the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She was born in Miami, Florida and now lives in Brooklyn with her husband, fellow writer Ryan Harty. She is the author of The Invisible Bridge, a New York Times bestseller, and How to Breathe Underwater, a collection of stories; her novel, The Flight Portfolio, tells the story of Varian Fry, the New York journalist who went to Marseille in 1940 to save writers and artists blacklisted by the Gestapo. The novel inspired the Netflix series Transatlantic.
